Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde (born 30 July 1975) is a Norwegian writer.

Biography Lunde was born in Oslo on 30 July 1975. She was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 2015 for the novel Bienes historie, which was published with the title The History of Bees in the United States by Touchstone, a division of Simon and Schuster, in 2017. As script writer she has contributed to the television series , Hjem and . She graduated from the University of Oslo.

Her children's book Snøsøsteren from 2018 was illustrated by Lisa Aisato. Her next book was Przevalskis hest (2019), named after Przewalski's horse, the third volume in her series on people and climate. (The first volumes in the series were Bienes historie (2015) and Blå (2017)). A fourth book in the series, Drømmen om et tre, came out in 2022.